Apple'sSmartphoneGrowthInQ22013WasTheSlowestIt'sBeenIn4Years

IDC has released its smartphone market figures for the second fiscal quarter of 2013, during which the firm explains that Apple's smartphone growth was the lowest it's been in four years. While the year-over-year growth for the entire market was an impressive 52.3 percent, iPhone sales increased by less than half this figure - just 20 percent - compared with Q2 2012.
It seems that Samsung, unsurprisingly, is succeeding where Apple presently fails, and the South Korean company saw a year-over-year smartphone growth of 43.9 percent in Q2 2013 - more than double that of Apple's iPhone. That being said, however, the Cupertino, Calif. company nevertheless occupied a No. 2 position for Q2 2013 smartphone vendors, with further companies - such as LG, Lenovo, and ZTE - securing relatively smaller shares of the market (despite impressive growth).
IDC explains:

Apple posted its second-lowest year-over-year iPhone growth rate in almost four years as some buyers presumably held off on iPhone purchases in advance of an expected next-generation device launch this fall. Nonetheless, the 31.2 million iPhones Apple shipped last quarter was impressive as its flagship iPhone 5 model, which has been in the market for three quarters, was faced with additional global competition in the form of Samsung's Galaxy S4 and HTC's critically-acclaimed One models. Apple's growth is likely to accelerate globally assuming it launches a lower-cost iPhone and continues to penetrate prepaid markets in the quarters to come.